Understanding management :
Willman, Paul,
Understanding management : social science foundations / Paul Willman. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - x, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Management Field ; Theme A: Accounting for Capitalism ; 2. The Firm ; Theme B: The Agency Problem ; 3. Workers of the World ; Theme C: A Short History of Collective Action ; 4. The Search for Consummate Co-operation ; Theme D: A Short history of Bounded Rationality ; 5. The Structuring of Organisations ; Theme E: Measuring Performance; scorecards and league tables ; 6. Strategy as Competition and Cooperation ; Theme F: A Short history of the M form ; 7. Strategy as Organisational Theory ; Theme G: Managing Markets from Hierarchies ; 8. The Strange Rise of Finance ; Theme H: The Modern Corporation ; 9. The Anthropology of Management? ; Theme I: Performativity; Does Life Imitate Art? ; 10. In Search of a Better Past. ; APPENDIX SOME CORE TEXTS
This comprehensive introductory text explains the roots of the management field in the social sciences; and how it developed and why. Appealing to those with a broad interest in the area, this book will also act as a guide to the extensive literatures in the field for those wishing to go further.
9780198716921 (pbk.) Rs1100.00 0198716923 (pbk.) 9780198716914 (hbk.) 0198716915 (hbk.)
99961067598
Management--Sociological aspects.
Management--Social aspects.
HD30.19 / .W55 2014
658 WIL / 005637
Understanding management : social science foundations / Paul Willman. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - x, 321 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Management Field ; Theme A: Accounting for Capitalism ; 2. The Firm ; Theme B: The Agency Problem ; 3. Workers of the World ; Theme C: A Short History of Collective Action ; 4. The Search for Consummate Co-operation ; Theme D: A Short history of Bounded Rationality ; 5. The Structuring of Organisations ; Theme E: Measuring Performance; scorecards and league tables ; 6. Strategy as Competition and Cooperation ; Theme F: A Short history of the M form ; 7. Strategy as Organisational Theory ; Theme G: Managing Markets from Hierarchies ; 8. The Strange Rise of Finance ; Theme H: The Modern Corporation ; 9. The Anthropology of Management? ; Theme I: Performativity; Does Life Imitate Art? ; 10. In Search of a Better Past. ; APPENDIX SOME CORE TEXTS
This comprehensive introductory text explains the roots of the management field in the social sciences; and how it developed and why. Appealing to those with a broad interest in the area, this book will also act as a guide to the extensive literatures in the field for those wishing to go further.
9780198716921 (pbk.) Rs1100.00 0198716923 (pbk.) 9780198716914 (hbk.) 0198716915 (hbk.)
99961067598
Management--Sociological aspects.
Management--Social aspects.
HD30.19 / .W55 2014
658 WIL / 005637